PREFACE
It was with a public avowal of the sentiments so well expressed by the writers
just quoted, that I accepted the situation of
Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, in the year
1810; and from these J have never
swerved.
At the commencement of the following year, the students of surgery were first invited to attend the practice of the Infir- mary; an opportunity eagerly embraced, and which many hundreds have since enjoyed.
Among the gentlemen who with ardor and diligence entered upon this new and interesting study, during my connection with the Infirmary, I have the pleasure of including many of the best cducated and most rising men in the Profession ; and, if they will permit me to say so, some of my most estimable friends.
Upon occasion of electing a second sur- geon to that Establishment in 1814, my friend, Mr. Lawrence, became my col- Jeague. I consider it to be no ordinary sanction of my views, that they were thus �
